Office hours updates

For office hour updates, check here:

http://ethno2english.blogspot.com

If you're bringing essays, then be sure to bring printed copies with you and plan on about a half an hour for the exam.

Have a successful exam session and a great summer!

Sitcom notes (and bonus - 1960s sitcom theme songs)

Here are the last two sets of lecture notes.

Here are the notes on Sitcoms.

Here some lyrics of 1960s sitcom theme songs (true masterpieces of dramatic music).

Remember you can have these (or other) notes during the test for credit, but only in paper form!

Enjoy!

Sample Essay Exam Questions

Here are some sample essay exam questions, as always feel free to create your own topics (but check with me before starting work on them).

Enjoy!

Finally! Supernatural and Superhero notes!!!!

Here are the notes for supernatural stuff.

Here are the notes for superheroes.

Let me know if you have troubles opening or reading them.

Keep watching this space.....

Enjoy!

Documentary on Forrest J Ackerman

Here's a documentary on the guy who helped create nerd collector culture and made monsters go mainstream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYUQm1QsxN0

Enjoy!

Radio links for March 21, 2019

Here are two classic radio horror stories.

The Thing on the Fourbleboard (1948)

 Don't worry if you don't understand the mining terminology (I don't either). Just remember that the machine takes samples from far below the surface and brings them up... The fourbleboard is a platform about 25 meters above the ground.

Three Skeleton Key (1949)

An isolated lighthouse off a hellish bit of coast of South America, what could be worse? Well.....

Some movie links from March 14, 2019

Here are some quick links to silent movies:


Frankenstein(1910)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ENQibFW9w


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0KB2XC29o


The Golem: How he came into the world (1920)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGgKeREk8E


Nosferatu (1922)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omtr2EKHZT8


Häxan (1922)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdeMutG3NUM

Ars Americana: American popular culture syllabus!

Here is the provisional syllabus for this semester.

It has a weekly schedule (which may end up being modified a little).

It also has some web links that you can access.

Welcome to class!

Last notes (political music) and Test for Credit - January 31, 2019

If you have to (or want to) take the Test for Credit then:

Most of the notes are here. Please note that the final lesson notes aren't part of this.

The notes for the final lesson (on political music) are are.

The Test for Credit is open book (you can have your notes - but only in paper form, no digital devices allowed).

The test itself is between 60 and 70 short answer or fill in the blank questions.

See you at the test (if you need and/or want it)!

Listening List for January 24, 2019

 Here are the lyrics for this week.

Here's this week's listening list.

Lynching

Suppertime

Ethel Waters (original 1933 recording)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAw8ru_nQc

live performance (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mO92ll_q0k

Civil Rights Era (1954-69)

Civil Rights Hymns

I’ll fly away

The Southern Sons (1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc8U3Lpdgo

We shall overcome

Mahalia Jackson (1960~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyKJjj2oC0

live performance (1968~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR1YvfIGng

Eyes on the prize (Gospel Plow)

Sweet Honey in the Rock (1980s~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tcZAqQUAg

Other Civil Rights Music

Alabama

John Coltrane (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVuU6G9h6o

A change is gonna come

Sam Cooke (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH25EUgFMmI

People get ready

Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKEbnS1eBE

I Wish I Knew How it would feel to be free

Nina Simone (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNBpizpZkE

live performance (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP0-8VAow

Four women

Nina Simone (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmzQ39sXTQ

To be young, gifted and black

Nina Simone (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMOxRxcJpo

To be young, gifted and black

Aretha Franklin (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7VJAhnxlc

Say it loud – I’m black and Im’ proud

James Brown (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A_N-wmiMo

Love Child

Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YflH6Sqgk

In the ghetto

Candi Staton (1970~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXqcynZZYg

 Post Civil Rights Era

Lift every voice and sing

Ray Charles (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8

choral version (???)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Bn7kPkLo

Living for the city

Stevie Wonder (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w

You haven’t done nothin’

Stevie Wonder (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQCJ6PzRdA

Fear of a black planet

Public Enemy (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQmFk1ok0

Listening list for January 17, 2019

Here some lyrics for this week (due to the nature of rap I can't really have all the lyrics...)

The songs or more or less in chronological order from 1980 -1992

As always, please let me know about any dead links...

Rapture

Blondie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

Wordy Rappinghood

Tom Tom Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vl1m5FYlAo

Double Dutch Bus

Frankie Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM

The Message

Grandmaster Flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4

Roxanne Roxanne

UTTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KpngczmD7Q

Human Beat Box

Fat Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJewbFZHI34

World Destruction

Time Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5S-q1gRxvw

Walk This Way

Run D.M.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

You gotta fight (for your right)

Beastie Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

Push it

Salt 'n Peppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU

Supersonic

J.J. Fad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nPLoODtGU

Straight outa Compton

N.W.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

Me so horny

Two Live Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VTj7LhCtE

Fight the Power

Public Enemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

Poor Georgie

M.C. Lyte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5MzLsaVWc

Sometimes I rhyme slow

Nice and Smooth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXQ3hEIDMA

My definition of boombastic jazz style

Dream Warriors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoE5yHMrP0A

Set adrift on memory bliss

P.M. Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AOVf9p9ht4

Tennessee

Arrested Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCdJyOAQYM